I would assume you put a visible registration mark on a section of substrate that's unused (say.. the back perhaps?) or some kind of removeable holder.
um.. 3+ body problem for an "asteroid" game comes to mind, realistic damping due to wind resistance, the same but weather, realistic looking vehicle suspension, stinger-missile simulation, aerodynamic simulation, realistic looking water/weather..
Pretty much anywhere that the underlying equation is more complicated than a simple spherical potential.
Sure you *could* hard code it in, but if the analytical result is a function like exp(-x^2)cos(x), you're going to have include quite a few higher order terms to evaluate it to any precision, and you lose any advantage you had if the ODE could've been solved with a few simple multiplication/additions.
If all you care about is, "given state f({x},t=n) what is state f({x},t=n+1)" a numerical ODE solver is pretty much ideal for that.
You've made a very important assumption. The assumption you're making is that the breakdown goes like this:
government removes $1.20 from the economy through taxation
$0.20 lost as "waste heat" somehow $1.00 spent on economically useful projects
$1.00 + $.20 = $1.20, and everyone's happy.
The real problem is that by definition, a governments activities contrary to an efficient market. If they weren't, those activities would already be taken care of by said market. The social merits of those activities are irrelevant to this discussion. The simple fact is that government action hurts the economy regardless its other benefits.
I believe the real equation goes more like this:
Government directs $2.00 of the economy's output/feedstock. $1.00 of this is accounted for on-the-books through taxation $0.80 of this is accounted for between-the-lines through debt service $0.20 of this is accounted for by inflation due to out-and-out printing-too-much-money
The distinction between debt and moneyprinting is a bit fuzzy, and plenty of accounting tricks are used to hide the various means. Accounting tricks used by accountants paid out of the $2.00 btw. However, redirected wealth recognized as debt does serve to reduce inflationary pressure. Also, counterfeiters remove wealth via the third option as well. However, it could not be said that their activities have any socially redeeming value whatsoever, and are a separate entity from government and irrelevant to discussing government's effects.
so, some conclusions: Government spending removes wealth from the economy regardless of how it is accounted for simply by redirecting efforts. Governments do not need to tax anything at all. They could simply print all the money they need and allow inflation to take care of the value removed from the economy. Therefore, the tax plan serves two purposes:
1) reduce inflation by keeping the money supply constant 2) direct the lost wealth at specific individuals/ classes of individuals to avoid accountability.
note that (1) is good for lenders, but not so good for borrowers on an individual scale
but that's the point. the only way for sony to ensure that no content is downgraded on their boxes is to make the boxes ignore the "please downgrade the signal" for EVERYBODY. precisely because third parties will be peppering their movies with it. Especially third parties that have been given a licensing incentive on HD-DVD to make sure they do so.
oh I agree on definately agree changing things to "view everything newest first" for modding, but the gems are so very rare that usually only use 3 of my points by the time the time limit runs out.
y'know, one of the simplifying assumptions back in the day that made graphics applications "more efficient" was 2D sprites. Would you like to go back to that in the name of efficiency when so very much more is possible?
(actually, I kinda would like that for a few games though.. I haven't scratched that "blabbity quest" puzzle-adventure itch since Space Quest)
For a game, the best way to solve ODEs is numerically. Since you don't need the precision of the exact solution, the solutions are considerably simpler computationally once you've linearized them. Doing RK4 on the fly is precisely the best solution to the problem. Well, depending on the stiffness.. but you can always fall back on plain ol' trapezoid rule if you just wanna know, "what does the thing do until it hits the ground" to enough precision to be pretty.
solving a linearized ODE is just plain ol' ordinary matrix math, very parallelizeable and a lot less computationally expensive than breaking up a transcendental function into piecewise conitinuous steps and calculating the result every time.
6) Writing my congressman doesn't help me play a movie tonight, tomorrow, next week, or probably even this year. People want immediate solutions. Let's keep working on the long term, but I'd like to watch my movies legally now, thanks very much. Of course, I have a DVD player, and a decent TV, so I don't really care whether my computer can play them.
Y'know, we bitch about this one quite a bit, but the fact is that software decoders must be legal on some level, or they wouldn't exist for windows either. And the licensing fees can't be too outrageous, because many popular DVDs come with software decoder "upgrades." So what we need to do is start some kind of foundation and get people to donate to it (or sell something related people would want to buy) and purchase a license.
In fact, I wonder if I haven't missed the boat and someone's already doing this right now...
Sure it might be a less principled action than getting sufficiently large groups of people to set aside their militant apathy* and get congress to vote the "right" way, but there are are so many other more important things they could be spending their energy on if they'd bother to care about anything at all that it seems a bit selfish even.
*a term I'm sure I wasn't the first to coin, which is the only way I can describe the reaction of a friend of mine when I tried to engage in a little political discussion. I'd never before heard the phrase, "I don't care" uttered with so much passion.
Many of us have started to browse at +5 flamebait and -(something) funny. I know I didn't think of it, because I got the idea from somebody's sig. My little modification is that I add -1 for subscribers to counteract their +1 bonus. kind of evens the playing field a bit. (plus, most of 'em have even less interesting comments than my own.. and that's pretty bad if this one's anything to judge by)
IIRC, the PBJ patent is for a specific varient of the pbj sandwich in which BOTH sides are peanunt-buttered as a barrier between the bread and the jelly. This is somewhat nonintuitive, and significantly increases the shelf life for a mass-produced sandwich. i.e. it makes it possible to even have a mass-produced sandwich.
Of course, now that we know about it, it's obvious in hindsight, but then so is a steam engine.
"We have a right to know how stories get to the front page on slashdot. Why aren't we getting the benefit of dupe stories like everyone else?
what makes you think they won't get the benefit of dupe stories?
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Evolution at work my friend. TV stations that don't achieve viewers will eventually go extinct. eventually being replaced by TV stations that do.
1st corollary: TV stations that find a revinue stream that is independant of what people would actually like to watch will stay on the air regardless of content. e.g. PBS.
except, for it to work they're going to have to disable the "feature" in their players as well. If they don't, all that an enterprising member of HD-DVD has to do is join blue-ray, stamp some blu-ray disks with the "downgrade me please" bit, and release them on the unsuspecting public. It's not like people with sony players are only going to buy movies produced by sony studios.
you can do the whole operation with the mouse even.
simply highlight the text to be pasted. middle-click in the terminal window. if the command is more than one line, it'll run automatically. if it's only one line, you might have to hit the enter key..
how is "IT" in any way innovative? It's a human-sized stick-balancer that serves the function of an electric scooter, only less comfortably. The concept is obvious to any competant engineer or researcher in the field of control theory. and not obvious as in, "Oh that's neat i could'a thought of that." but obvious as in "hey i remember learning about just that exact thing in my introductory control systems class twenty years ago"
The people that are "in the middle" that politicians are constantly pandering for have weak convictions and an unsophisticated worldview. They can often be swayed by promises of loot rather than idealogical reason. The thing is, if you do not have an "extremist" view you simply have not studied the issues at hand and examined yourself yet. Granted, your extremism can be orthogonal to the traditional political spectrum, but idealogues in general are not swayed by pork-barrel pandering.
The "middle" is unwilling to take the risk of being wrong, and guarantees that it will never take the risk of being right either.
A peaceful anarchist? So you wouldn't care if someone say.. robbed you blind while you were out? I mean, property rights maintained through the use of police, which are a part of the -archy you seem to decry.
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weren't those the bad guys from the cartoon series, "Gargoyles?"
I would assume you put a visible registration mark on a section of substrate that's unused (say.. the back perhaps?) or some kind of removeable holder.
um.. 3+ body problem for an "asteroid" game comes to mind, realistic damping due to wind resistance, the same but weather, realistic looking vehicle suspension, stinger-missile simulation, aerodynamic simulation, realistic looking water/weather..
Pretty much anywhere that the underlying equation is more complicated than a simple spherical potential.
Sure you *could* hard code it in, but if the analytical result is a function like exp(-x^2)cos(x), you're going to have include quite a few higher order terms to evaluate it to any precision, and you lose any advantage you had if the ODE could've been solved with a few simple multiplication/additions.
If all you care about is, "given state f({x},t=n) what is state f({x},t=n+1)" a numerical ODE solver is pretty much ideal for that.
You've made a very important assumption. The assumption you're making is that the breakdown goes like this:
government removes $1.20 from the economy through taxation
$0.20 lost as "waste heat" somehow
$1.00 spent on economically useful projects
$1.00 + $.20 = $1.20, and everyone's happy.
The real problem is that by definition, a governments activities contrary to an efficient market. If they weren't, those activities would already be taken care of by said market. The social merits of those activities are irrelevant to this discussion. The simple fact is that government action hurts the economy regardless its other benefits.
I believe the real equation goes more like this:
Government directs $2.00 of the economy's output/feedstock.
$1.00 of this is accounted for on-the-books through taxation
$0.80 of this is accounted for between-the-lines through debt service
$0.20 of this is accounted for by inflation due to out-and-out printing-too-much-money
The distinction between debt and moneyprinting is a bit fuzzy, and plenty of accounting tricks are used to hide the various means. Accounting tricks used by accountants paid out of the $2.00 btw. However, redirected wealth recognized as debt does serve to reduce inflationary pressure. Also, counterfeiters remove wealth via the third option as well. However, it could not be said that their activities have any socially redeeming value whatsoever, and are a separate entity from government and irrelevant to discussing government's effects.
so, some conclusions: Government spending removes wealth from the economy regardless of how it is accounted for simply by redirecting efforts. Governments do not need to tax anything at all. They could simply print all the money they need and allow inflation to take care of the value removed from the economy. Therefore, the tax plan serves two purposes:
1) reduce inflation by keeping the money supply constant
2) direct the lost wealth at specific individuals/ classes of individuals to avoid accountability.
note that (1) is good for lenders, but not so good for borrowers on an individual scale
Indeed, they appear to have exhausted the supply of TLAs and are mixing in some FLLAs for good measure.
but that's the point. the only way for sony to ensure that no content is downgraded on their boxes is to make the boxes ignore the "please downgrade the signal" for EVERYBODY. precisely because third parties will be peppering their movies with it. Especially third parties that have been given a licensing incentive on HD-DVD to make sure they do so.
oh I agree on definately agree changing things to "view everything newest first" for modding, but the gems are so very rare that usually only use 3 of my points by the time the time limit runs out.
y'know, one of the simplifying assumptions back in the day that made graphics applications "more efficient" was 2D sprites. Would you like to go back to that in the name of efficiency when so very much more is possible?
(actually, I kinda would like that for a few games though.. I haven't scratched that "blabbity quest" puzzle-adventure itch since Space Quest)
For a game, the best way to solve ODEs is numerically. Since you don't need the precision of the exact solution, the solutions are considerably simpler computationally once you've linearized them. Doing RK4 on the fly is precisely the best solution to the problem. Well, depending on the stiffness.. but you can always fall back on plain ol' trapezoid rule if you just wanna know, "what does the thing do until it hits the ground" to enough precision to be pretty.
solving a linearized ODE is just plain ol' ordinary matrix math, very parallelizeable and a lot less computationally expensive than breaking up a transcendental function into piecewise conitinuous steps and calculating the result every time.
6) Writing my congressman doesn't help me play a movie tonight, tomorrow, next week, or probably even this year. People want immediate solutions. Let's keep working on the long term, but I'd like to watch my movies legally now, thanks very much. Of course, I have a DVD player, and a decent TV, so I don't really care whether my computer can play them.
Y'know, we bitch about this one quite a bit, but the fact is that software decoders must be legal on some level, or they wouldn't exist for windows either. And the licensing fees can't be too outrageous, because many popular DVDs come with software decoder "upgrades." So what we need to do is start some kind of foundation and get people to donate to it (or sell something related people would want to buy) and purchase a license.
In fact, I wonder if I haven't missed the boat and someone's already doing this right now...
Sure it might be a less principled action than getting sufficiently large groups of people to set aside their militant apathy* and get congress to vote the "right" way, but there are are so many other more important things they could be spending their energy on if they'd bother to care about anything at all that it seems a bit selfish even.
*a term I'm sure I wasn't the first to coin, which is the only way I can describe the reaction of a friend of mine when I tried to engage in a little political discussion. I'd never before heard the phrase, "I don't care" uttered with so much passion.
Many of us have started to browse at +5 flamebait and -(something) funny. I know I didn't think of it, because I got the idea from somebody's sig. My little modification is that I add -1 for subscribers to counteract their +1 bonus. kind of evens the playing field a bit. (plus, most of 'em have even less interesting comments than my own.. and that's pretty bad if this one's anything to judge by)
IIRC, the PBJ patent is for a specific varient of the pbj sandwich in which BOTH sides are peanunt-buttered as a barrier between the bread and the jelly. This is somewhat nonintuitive, and significantly increases the shelf life for a mass-produced sandwich. i.e. it makes it possible to even have a mass-produced sandwich.
Of course, now that we know about it, it's obvious in hindsight, but then so is a steam engine.
what makes you think they won't get the benefit of dupe stories?
Evolution at work my friend. TV stations that don't achieve viewers will eventually go extinct. eventually being replaced by TV stations that do.
1st corollary: TV stations that find a revinue stream that is independant of what people would actually like to watch will stay on the air regardless of content. e.g. PBS.
Why do you assume they will be putting electrolyte in the water?
except, for it to work they're going to have to disable the "feature" in their players as well. If they don't, all that an enterprising member of HD-DVD has to do is join blue-ray, stamp some blu-ray disks with the "downgrade me please" bit, and release them on the unsuspecting public. It's not like people with sony players are only going to buy movies produced by sony studios.
you can do the whole operation with the mouse even.
simply highlight the text to be pasted.
middle-click in the terminal window. if the command is more than one line, it'll run automatically. if it's only one line, you might have to hit the enter key..
how is "IT" in any way innovative? It's a human-sized stick-balancer that serves the function of an electric scooter, only less comfortably. The concept is obvious to any competant engineer or researcher in the field of control theory. and not obvious as in, "Oh that's neat i could'a thought of that." but obvious as in "hey i remember learning about just that exact thing in my introductory control systems class twenty years ago"
somalia. you forgot to specify "high standard of living"
The people that are "in the middle" that politicians are constantly pandering for have weak convictions and an unsophisticated worldview. They can often be swayed by promises of loot rather than idealogical reason. The thing is, if you do not have an "extremist" view you simply have not studied the issues at hand and examined yourself yet. Granted, your extremism can be orthogonal to the traditional political spectrum, but idealogues in general are not swayed by pork-barrel pandering.
The "middle" is unwilling to take the risk of being wrong, and guarantees that it will never take the risk of being right either.
If you were *really* a rocket scientist, you'd think 87% or less was actually a pretty good fraction...
the US didn't exist in 1776.
and.. I suppose you'll just stand by your well-locked mailbox every day to let the mail carrier in?
Anything that actually uses the pads isn't a U FO.
A peaceful anarchist? So you wouldn't care if someone say.. robbed you blind while you were out? I mean, property rights maintained through the use of police, which are a part of the -archy you seem to decry.